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Rolling Stones plan to release new album this year

Members of the band The Rolling Stones, from left, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pose for photographers upon arrival at the Rolling Stones Exhibitionism preview in London, Monday, April 4, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) Members of the band The Rolling Stones, from left, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pose for photographers upon arrival at the Rolling Stones Exhibitionism preview in London, Monday, April 4, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

By Associated Press April 4, 2016 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood says the band is planning to release a new album, possibly this year.

The British rockers last released a studio album in 2005, but Wood said Monday that they have been in the studio and recorded some new material and some blues covers.

The 68-year-old Wood said “we went in to cut some new songs, which we did.” He added that the band “cut 11 blues in two days.”

The Rolling Stones, which started as a blues band in 1962, just wrapped a tour of Latin America with a free show in Cuba on March 25. The band then headed to London for Monday’s opening of “Exhibitionism,” a vast exhibition of the group’s history at the Saatchi Gallery.